What are Residential Heating Units?

The Acronym HVAC stands for Heating, Ventilation and Air conditioning which is a technology which makes use of different principles such as thermodynamics and fluid mechanics to bring about the necessary thermal needs of every end users.

The Heating aspect of this technology are those appliances who main objective is to generate heat or warmth to any infrastructures. This is primarily done through home heating units such as furnace, boilers steam or air and heat pumps.

This process is greatly needed in different homes and residential dwellings especially during winter or cold seasons. What are the different types of home heating systems that every home owners can consider? These are subdivided into 4 categories namely Central heat, Boilers, Heat Pumps and Direct Heat.

Central Heat

Central heating process through the form of a furnace situated strategically in a house works by blowing heated air through ducts which travels proportionally to rooms via registers or grills.

They also coined such as ducted warm air or forced warm air distribution system which can also be part of the electric heating units for homes, by natural gas or fuel oil.

Through the natural gas or fuel powered furnace, the fuel or liquid is mixed with air and combustion occurs. The created flames increases the temperature of a metal exchanger which then in turn transfer the heat through the air.

With the same flow output in place, the heated air is then transferred through ducts and out through pipes leading through its destination.

Several enhancements were already made to ensure that efficiency and efficacy is in place since there were situations wherein the heated air from furnaces goes out of the atmosphere rather than internally.

Manufacturers have come up of an inducer to pull the exhaust gases through the heat exchanger mechanism and induce draft in the chimney.

Boilers

Boilers carries and distribute heat in hot water which generates heat as it goes through radiators or other devices in designated rooms. The cooler water then goes back to be reheated and re use to serve its purpose. It goes through what they call hydronic systems wherein the residential boilers utilize natural gas or heating oil as fuel.

While the central heating makes use of fan and duct system, a boiler makes use of pumps to circulate the hot water along pipes to the radiator or warmer. Heat then is controlled through specialized valves and thermostats to generate the desired level of temperature inside given location of the home.

Heat pumps

Heat pumps serves as a two directional air conditioning machinery. As an air-conditioning acts to distribute the relatively cool air to a warmer section of the house, during winter, heat pumps reverses the action by collating heat from the cold outdoors an electrical system and carrying the gathered heat internally.

You may wonder as to where these heat pumps would get the source of warmth and act as one of the heat systems for homes. First option would be the ground source. The ground source would need a loop be buried in the ground to gather heat that is why it is often called us geothermal or geoexchange in nature. The second one would be air source heat pumps which is easier to install and less costly than the ground one. Both sources makes use of electricity to move the heat rather than generating it.

Direct heat

Pellet heater

These types of home heating systems ranges from Gas-Fired Space heater to Electric Space heaters, Wood-Burning, Pellet Stoves as well as Fireplaces which are often times popular in cabins and small houses and are more economical.

Gas fired direct heating includes wall mounted, free standing and floor furnaces which makes use of sealed combustion air systems with pipes to distribute heat and carry off the combustion products. Electric space heaters on the other hand utilizes electric current from the wall socket into heat.

Rural places usually utilizes wood-burning and fireplaces with customary installations that rely on air drawn from the room into a certain receptacle or container. They would also need an exhaust or chimney to ensure that pollutants or burned air do not retain inside the house.

With knowledge on these best home heating system, homeowners and residential dwellers can have a more calculated and careful decision of what to install. At the end of it all what matters would be the adaptability of such heating system in their place, cost, efficiency and efficacy of the product in support of their goal to have a comfortable and happy environment to live in.